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From: "Jeff Gaul" <>
Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] McGrath/McGraw
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 17:45:33 -0400
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Are you related to Fred?
thx
Jeff Gaul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas J. Ebert" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] McGrath/McGraw
> Hi Bill
>
> Good to hear from you again. I don't think Daniel is one of ours. The 1852
> Troy directory has Richard, Phillip, John, William and Patrick all
> residing at the same residence. Richard left Troy first for Oswego in 1852
> and the others followed including my ggg grandmother Mary Egon (Egan)
> McGrath. There were an additional 5 McGrath boys somewhere and a sister
> but I have never been able to find anything on them. Daniel is not a name
> that is in the family tree. I think the family came over to Canada in 1841
> or 2, since Richard is married in Montreal in 1843.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Bill & Cathy McGrath <>
> To:
> Sent: Mon, May 3, 2010 11:53:39 AM
> Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] McGrath/McGraw
>
> Hello Tom:
>
> I enjoyed reading your post on the McGrath/McGraw surname. I forgot to
> mention in my previous post on the McGrath/McGraw names that my father,
> James McGrath, was known to everyone in South Troy as Jim McGraw.
>
> Your McGrath and Kennedy relatives are in Troy earlier than mine. My
> grandfather Thomas McGrath and his wife Nora Kennedy came to Troy around
> 1891. Also a brother Patrick McGrath and a sister Bridget McGrath Gleason
> came to Troy around the same time.
>
> I know all the descendents of my grandfather Thomas and his brother
> Patrick
> and I am the only William McGrath in the line. However, the funeral
> notice
> for Patrick McGrath (1873?-1943) mentions a William McGrath, pallbearer as
> a
> nephew. The funeral notice for my grandfather, Thomas McGrath (1873-1949)
> mentions a William H. McGrath as a pallbearer and the funeral notice for
> Bridget McGrath Gleason (1871-1952) also has a William H. McGrath as a
> pallbearer.
> I have no idea who this William H. McGrath was and how he is related to my
> McGrath's.
>
> Also at my father's baptism in 1900, his sponsor was a Daniel McGrath and
> I
> wonder if there is some family connection with this Daniel.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill McGrath
> Clifton Park, NY
>
> --- Original Message -----
>> From: "Thomas J. Ebert" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 12:33 AM
>> Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] McGrath/McGraw
>>
>>
>>> Glad to be of service here. When my gg grandmother Elizabeth Kennedy
>>> McGrath applied for a CW pension in 1890 she had to explain this in a
>>> deposition which was included in my gg grandfather National Archives
>>> file.
>>>
>>> In Gaelic the "th" is pronounced as a "w." My gg grandfather was William
>>> McGrath but in the army records he is William McGraw, his brother
>>> Richard
>>> is Richard McGraugh and his brother Patrick is Patrick McGrath. Those
>>> families using McGraw probably Anglicized the spelling of their name.
>
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